CVE-2020-15592 (GCVE-0-2020-15592)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-27 13:33 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
SteelCentral Aternity Agent before 11.0.0.120 on Windows allows Privilege Escalation via a crafted file. It uses an executable running as a high privileged Windows service to perform administrative tasks and collect data from other processes. It distributes functionality among different processes and uses IPC (Inter-Process Communication) primitives to enable the processes to cooperate. The remotely callable methods from remotable objects available through interprocess communication allow loading of arbitrary plugins (i.e., C# assemblies) from the "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%/Aternity Information Systems/Assistant/plugins” directory, where the name of the plugin is passed as part of an XML-serialized object. However, because the name of the DLL is concatenated with the “.\plugins” string, a directory traversal vulnerability exists in the way plugins are resolved.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
2 references
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